Liner for baskets



Nov. 22, 1932. c. J. DUDLEY LINER FOR BASKETS Filed July 19. 1950 IA/vEA/m/r Co LONJ.DUDL-ET 4 rromygy Patented Nov. 22, 1932 UNITED STATES COLON J. DUDLEY, OI HAMBURG, NEW YORK LINER son BASKETS Application filed July 19, 1930. Serial No. 469,158.

My invention relates in general to liners for fruit and vegetable baskets, and particularly to a liner for the covers of such baskets.

A well known packing method of the present art is to place commodities within a bas ket liner held in lace by a mold. In sucha method, a face orm is used and the commodity is first packed within the face form. In place of the face form, the basket cover may be used as fully described in my pending application Serial No. 465,106. In each ofthe methods referred to, the contents of the basket may be bruised or cut by the sharp edges of the face form or cover. Moreover,

the sharp edges of the cover are very likely to cut the fruit when handled or shipped. This is true whether or not one of the ordinary fi'at cover liners is used It has been one of the principal objects of 3 my invention to provide a cover liner which shall overlap the sharp edges of the rim of the cover or the edge of the face form and thereby overcome the objections above referred to.

Moreover, my liner replaces the ordinary cap used in the packing operation.

Furthermore, my cover liner is of such a nature that when the cover of a packed basket is removed, the fruit will be held intact by the cover liner' which remains in place upon the top of the fruit.

My invention, moreover, provides means for inspecting the fruit without removing the cover liner.

The above objects and advantages have been accomplished by the device shown in the accompanying drawing, of which:

Fig. 1- is a plan view of my cover liner before being used.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary, sectional view of a basket cover with my liner in place therein.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a bushel basket showing the cover removed and my cover liner in place.

My invention comprises a disc 5 of suitable material which may be of relativelyheavy, smooth paper or corrugated material. The diameter of the disc is considerably larger than the diameter of the inside hoop 6 of the tents of the basket.

providing two cuts and 16 arranged at cover, and it is provided with an annularly arranged score 8 of a diameter substantially the same or slightly less than the inner diameter of the inner hoop 6 of the cover.

Extending from the score mark 8 'to the 5 outer periphery 9 of the liner is provided a series of radially arranged cuts 10 which terminate at the score mark 8 at one end and at the outer periphery of the liner at the other, whereby a plurality of tabs 11 are provided. As shown in Fig. 2, these tabs are bent upwardly along the score mark 8 and assume an interlapped formation when the cover liner is pressed down into the cover as shown in Fig. 2, in which position they liner is cut along lines 15 and 16. These lines are preferably at right angles to each other and are of equal length'so that when their ends are joined a substantial square is formed. Extending across from one end of each of the lines to the adjacent ends of the other line are a plurality ofscore marks 17 which are thus arranged in square or polygonal forms. Flaps 18 are thusprovided which when the cover 7 is removed from a filled basket, may be folded back on the score lines 17 as shown in Fig. 3 to display the con- Obviously, instead of right angles to each other and of equal length, the inspection opening may be provided by making any other number and arrangement of cuts.

It will be obvious from Fig. 2 that the sharp upper corner of the inner hoop 6 of the cover is completely covered and thus prevented from injuring the fruit, and that when the cover is removed, as shown in Fig. 3, the fruit is kept nicely intact in the bushel basket by reason of the fact that the tabs 11 extend downwardly on the inside of the basket liner 19, while at the same time permit be had throng tin ample openin for thorough inspection an suflicient disp ay of the contents of the basket. A very attractive as well as practical and eficient package is thus made possible. While I have shown my liner as applied to the method of my co-pending application, wherethecover. of the basket is. used instead of a face form, it is obvious that the invention is'also applicable to the method where a face form is used, or, in fact, any other method where it is desirable to protect the upper layer of the packed contents of the basket from bruising. Obviously, these and other modifications of the details herein shown and described may be made without departing from the spirit of m invention or the scope of the appended c aims, and I do not, therefore,

wish to be limited to the exact embodiment herein shown and described, the form shown being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination with a receptacle, of a cover therefor, the cover being removable and replaceable, a liner for the cover, the

liner being separable from the cover, a flange on the liner designed to engage'between the contents of the receptacle and the walls thereof, the central portion of the liner being provided with fla means, whereby access may removed.

2. A liner for a receptacle having a removable and replaceable cover comprising a flange on the liner designed to engage between the contents of the receptacle and the walls thereof, the central portion of the liner being provided with flap means, whereby access may be had through the liner when the cover is removed.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

COLON J. DUDLEY.

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